Wonderland: Imagination and Words

When I think of ‘Wonderland’, I plummet down a dark hole with Alice into a curious land of the small, the tall, talking animals, and other strange oddities. This is the world forever etched in Western culture conjured up by the Rev Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll (1832-1898).

Alice and the Pool of Tears (Illustration: John Tenniel)Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland c 1890 W.B. Conkey Company, Chicago
Dodgson was a multi-disciplinary master of his imagination creating an upside down world the Victorians believed in and escaped into. ...